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On Media-Thirst Guys, and the horrifying knowledge that you can only relate with people just as brain-sick as you.
My girlfriend almost ghosted me after our second date. The reason was simple; we talked too much about the media. Becca works at Vox, I'm a freelancer…
Luke Winkie
Jul 30, 2020
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Let it die
It should be impossible to read Spin in 2021. The URL should either redirect to an elegiac 404, or a tasteful archive of the magazine's glory years. No…
Luke Winkie
Sep 9, 2021
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The Hustle Guy monetizing his midlife crisis
The YouTube channel TechLead hit rock bottom in a video uploaded in early June entitled "Living with my parents in my 'man cave' (as a millionaire…
Luke Winkie
Sep 25, 2020
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The seduction of Bad Posts
There is a man with a beard on the internet named David Leavitt. He has over 200,000 followers on Twitter, and according to his bio, is an…
Luke Winkie
Jul 9, 2020
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The seduction of Bad Posts
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The bad posts are coming from inside the house
Matt Yglesias wiped his Twitter account clean on July 7, 2020. Since then, he's tweeted an additional 357 times. That is a heroic number. Yglesias…
Luke Winkie
Jul 15, 2020
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Becoming Wordle Man
On January 7, I published a story about Wordle in the Slate culture section. It's about 1,200 words long and took a morning to write. I'm not sure if I…
Luke Winkie
Feb 2
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The 40 Hottest Women in Tech, and my worst day online
I've told this story many times to friends and peers, but I've never tried to write it out before. Many of you already know where I'm going with this…
Luke Winkie
Jul 22, 2020
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I wish you all a very pleasant Offline
A restored thirst for normieness is afoot. You can feel it in the air. The flowers are budding, the ice is melting, and after a year-plus of hellish…
Luke Winkie
Apr 15, 2021
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You're taking Ws, even when you're taking Ls
I used to follow Eve Barlow back in the day. She was a notable music writer who authored a couple of good record reviews, and she bounced around my…
Luke Winkie
Jun 3, 2021
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Three bad tweets about cranking hog
As you know, renowned journalist and author Jeffrey Toobin got in trouble this week for jerking off on Zoom in front of his New Yorker co-workers. The…
Luke Winkie
Oct 21, 2020
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Eric Alper, the ur-poster
"Bachman-Turner Overdrive," reads a tweet posted at 6am by Eric Alper. Sure enough, below the fold is a black and white photo of Robbie Bachman, Randy…
Luke Winkie
Feb 5, 2021
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Am I really going to be doing this for the rest of my life?
June will be my best month of 2021. I don't keep a ledger — I usually only discover how much money I made each year after adding up all the numbers in…
Luke Winkie
Jun 17, 2021
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